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Form Approved
OMB #0935-0118
Exp. Date 12/31/2018

Self 2018

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)

A Survey About Your Diabetes Care

The care of people with diabetes is an important concern of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions on the care you received for your diabetes. Your participation is voluntary and all of your answers will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by law. If you have any questions about this survey, please call Alex Scott at 1-800-945-MEPS (6377).

This survey should be completed by

NAME:

DOB:

PID:

RUID:

When you have completed the survey, return it to your interviewer.

This survey is authorized under 42 U.S.C. 299a. The confidentiality of your responses to this survey is protected by Sections 944(c) and 308(d) of the Public Health Service Act [42 U.S.C. 299c-3(c) and 42 U.S.C. 242m(d)]. Information that could identify you will not be disclosed unless you have consented to that disclosure. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 3 minutes per response, the estimated time required to complete the survey. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: AHRQ Reports Clearance Officer Attention: PRA, Paperwork Reduction Project (0935-0118) AHRQ, 5600 Fishers Lane Room #07W42, Rockville, MD 20857.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

A Survey About Your Diabetes Care

Instructions: Answer each question by marking one box or filling in a number when necessary. If you are unsure about how to answer a question, please give the best answer you can.

A health professional could be a general doctor, a specialist doctor, a nurse practitioner, a physician assistant, a nurse, or anyone else you would see for health care.

Have you ever been told by a doctor or other health professional that you have diabetes or sugar diabetes? MARK

ONE.

Yes Please continue.

No Thank you for your time. This survey is complete.

During 2017, how many times did a doctor, nurse, or other health professional check your blood for glycosylated hemoglobin or “hemoglobin A-one-C?” (A1C is a blood test to monitor the glucose level of diabetes over a period of several months. The A1C test is usually done in a lab, hospital, or doctor’s office although a home kit containing materials for one or two tests is now available. The A1C test is not the same as a Home Glucose Monitoring test which is used at home to monitor glucose levels on a daily or weekly basis, and needs supplies of disposable test strips.)

If you had this blood test, fill in NUMBER OF TIMES

Did not have A1C blood test

Don’t know

Never

Which of the following year(s) did a doctor or other health professional check your feet for any sores or irritations? MARK

ALL THAT APPLY.

During 2018

During 2017

During 2016

Before 2016

Never

Which of the following year(s) did you have an eye exam in which your pupils were dilated? This would have made you temporarily sensitive to bright light. MARK

ALL THAT APPLY.

During 2018

During 2017

During 2016

Before 2016

Never

Which of the following year(s) did you have your blood cholesterol checked? MARK

ALL THAT APPLY.

During 2018

During 2017

During 2016

Before 2016

Never

Which of the following year(s) did you get a flu vaccination (shot or nasal spray)? MARK

ALL THAT APPLY.

During 2018

During 2017

During 2016

Before 2016

Never

Has your diabetes caused problems with your kidneys?

Yes

Has your diabetes caused problems with your eyes that needed to be treated by an ophthalmologist?

Yes

Is your diabetes being treated by modifying your diet?

Yes

10.

Is your diabetes being treated by medications taken by mouth?

Yes

11.

Is your diabetes being treated with insulin injections?

Yes

12.

During the last 12 months, have you learned how to take care of your diabetes?

Yes

No Go to Question 14

13.

Which of the following methods have you used to learn to take care of your diabetes? MARK

ALL THAT APPLY.

Talking to a doctor/health professional within your primary care practice

Talking to a doctor/health professional not in your primary care practice

Telephone call with a health professional

Reading about it on the Internet

Taking a group class

Other (specify)

14.

How confident are you in taking care of your diabetes?

Not confident at all

Somewhat confident

Confident

Very confident

Refused

Don’t know

Thank you for taking the time to complete this important survey.

Please remember to return it to your interviewer.

Date completed:

If this survey was not completed by the person named on the front page, who completed the survey?

What is this person’s relationship to the person named on the front page?

Husband or wife

Unmarried partner

Mother, father, or guardian

Son or daughter

Other relative

Not related

What is the reason the person named on the front page did not complete the survey himself/herself?

Data Year 2017
18-230

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